Strangetown: Editing a story detail

[strangetomato]

I've been thinking through the details of my story that involve Bella Goth, and I realize that I'm going to have to change a small detail. I noticed this earlier, after her first appearance, but I decided to work with what I had done, and try to make it work. I now see that it really doesn't work. I'm talking about the fact that she knows her last name is Goth. That, in itself, would be enough for Pascal to figure it out. Not only because the Goths are a fairly prominent, "old money" family in Pleasantview, but because Pascal and Mortimer are both scientists, and Pascal would have made the connection and looked into it. I've made some comments about him not finding her in the records, since I was going to have it so that it had been removed from the archives, but I don't think he'd even need the records to figure it out. He would have heard of Mortimer.

So consider this a small edit to the story as it stands now. I'm going to need to do this for it to make sense. This doesn't guarantee that the rest will make sense, but my odds are a little better. I'm going to go back and leave out her last name in previous entries for anyone who might be new to it, but this is just for those of you who would remember that small detail (and probably better than I do - I think I may need to read some of it to refresh my memory).

Oh, and the good news is that I think I'm finally getting somewhere with this side of the plot. I've been kinda stuck with it for a while, so I'm hoping this will help me move forward. I had a nice burst of inspiration and wrote what will now likely be the first part of the next chapter (which really could be broken down into a number of chapters, but I'm grouping them together because they all happen at the same time).

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's good to just grab inspiration and produce in thsoe stolen moments.

*nodnod* Yes, and that's when I have been known to pull some all-nighters. :P

You're so right about Maxis tossing Bella in here, there, and everywhere. It's kind of like an inside joke to them. I must admit I was hoping for more on Bella's background with the advent of magic in the Sims 2, so I got really excited when I made the connection between the statue and the name of the town (although it is an herb and not necessarily related to Bella at all) but all of those little hints are about as far as it seems Maxis is going to go with it. *shrugs* Which is fine, since it's more fun to make up our own stories. ;)

That's awesome about your great great grandmother! In my family it's my dad's Aunt Vic. She was half Blackfoot Indian, and Dad said she sure looked the part of a stereotypical witch... long flying black hair streaked with grey; dark, dark brown eyes... but mostly he just remembers all the herbs and things around her house and the way it smelled, and all the people coming to ask her advice on this or that. She supposedly had the "eye," or so Dad says. :P I would have loved to have met her.

But yeah, I think it's possible to acknowledge Bella's possible connections to witchcraft without going into too much detail. Bella wouldn't necessarily have to have any powers herself just because she might be the daughter of a witch.